What's Love Got to Do With It?

How Close Relationships Shape our Lives
Robert J. Waldinger is a clinical and research psychiatrist who directs the Study of Adult Development at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. See full bio

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Love, Human Connection, and Health Care Reform

When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering. Read More

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What about shattered fractured bones? What about torn ACL and rotator cuffs? What about musculoskeletal tumors? What about the number of hip fractures doubling by year 2015? There is a lot of real pathology in every field. To minimize specialists in our healthcare system is rationing of care. Specialists are the only ones who can treat these conditions. Family docs can't even put on a cast or name the bones any more. You can live without repairing bones, ACLs, fractures in hospitals for weeks, etc, talk about causing depression....chicken or egg story. I agree with you to a point, but to think there is going to be a panacea if specialists quit ordering tests and doing procedures is the largest hoax ever brought on to the American people. There is lots of real pathology...MRSA infections,fracturs, worn out joints, etc...we need your field to help, but I maintain that correcting pathology helps also, and it is expensive to do it right!!!and there is a ton of pathology out there!!!!!!!!-----------no free rides

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